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What this is:
One individual's effort
to map a large number of the more
credible bigfoot / sasquatch reports published on the
internet; essentially to provide a reasonably comprehensive
geographical
index of reports and
a tool to help assess their geographic distribution.

What it is not:
A complete index of all bigfoot sightings. It can never be anywhere
near complete for a variety of reasons. First, that ideal
would totally depend
upon all witnesses reporting their encounters. Second, limited
manpower within bigfoot research
organizations means there will always be a sizeable
backlog of unevaluated
and unpublished reports. Also some
reports may be considered too sensitive for
publication.
Finally, this particular effort is also under-resourced. (The
fact that not all researchers organize their web sites in a manner
that facilitates monitoring new reports is also a factor.) So, while
thousands of reports have been mapped here, it's quite likely that a
very substantial number of encounters are not represented.

Thoughts
Concerning
Bigfoot

Why
dedicate so much effort to mapping reports of a creature that remains
unrecognized by mainstream science?

Initially
I had planned to include only maps and mapping information on this web
page. After all there are many other comprehensive web sites devoted to
the study of the bigfoot phenomenon. Those sites already provide
arguments supporting (and contesting) the likelihood these creatures
exist - arguments that are often more complete than the one I am about
to make. But since those arguments are elsewhere, my point here is to
encourage anyone who happens upon this project to not dismiss out of
hand the possibility these creatures exist, but rather to keep an open
mind and to learn more about this subject before forming an opinion...

The maps
shown here represent only a tiny sampling of the possibilities
available. To fully utilize this data requires the use of mapping
software such asDeLorme
Topo USA® orGoogle
Earth® .

Downloading and importing the bigfootreports.dmt
transfer file
provided here will
allow a DeLorme Topo USA® user to prepare
and view highly detailed maps
displaying the locations of purported bigfoot activity in any US or
Canadian locale
of interest.

Google Earth®
is a popular free
mapping
application that utilizes satellite imagery. It
requires a high speed internet connection to download the
imagery. Google Earth® users
should download and open the bigfootreports.kmz
file.

Both files include
reports of tracks and
audible
encounters not shown on the regional sample maps displayed here.

Text files containing the
sighting coordinate data
(approximate) are also provided here for export to other mapping
applications.

Users
of this information should
not assume that the locations shown are precisely accurate. Location
descriptions found in reports published online are seldom
precise enough to apply to a particular property.The
location coordinates are approximate
and the margin of error will depend on the degree of precision included
in the source report. Hyperlinks to the source reports are included and
should be referred to before making any inference regarding the
accuracy of the location.
While some
reports are located
quite precisely, typically the margin of error is likely to
be on the order of one mile. If
the likely
error is
greater an estimate is included. e.g., ~2mi, ~5mi,
etc. Users
of this information should
respect all property rights.

Disclaimer: Mangani has no affiliation with DeLorme Mapping or Google,
other than as a reasonably satisfied customer.

Anyone
contemplating harm to these creatures should reconsider.
Intentionally injuring or killing even one of them may prove to be a
huge
mistake.

Map
Data
Downloads

Notes

Data
is made
available here for use by all interested parties, with the provision
that
publication of this data in any manner must acknowledge the source.

Data last revised:21 Mar 2016
Note: DeLorme Topo USA & GE versions now hosted at Mediafire.Generally these maps do not duplicate
reports that
appear on more
than one research organization web site.

Such reports will
usually be linked to the organizations according to the order
they were
mapped (see site log), though there may be some exceptions.

In a few
cases duplicates have
been mapped
in order to provide
links to additional details.

16
Jun 2005 - Completed hyperlinks to BFRO reports.
(Hyperlink capability was not included in Topo USA when this project
commenced, so a significant portion of post 1990 reports did not
originally include hyperlinks to the source web site.)

20
Jun 2005 - Over 99% of BFRO reports mapped.
Reorganized reports by type (creature sighting, track/sign, audible).
Recompiled regional sample maps for this web site to include only BFRO
reports of creature sightings. While the map data files include reports
of tracks and audible encounters and sighting reports from other
organizations, these have been left out of the regional maps to
minimize clutter at the scale displayed.

16
Jul 2006
-
Completed addition of reports for the
International Bigfoot Society. *Data
currently include IBS reports with credibility rating of 1, 2, or 3 for
all US and Canadian states and provinces.
Note: The International
Bigfoot Society web site was taken
down in March
of 2009. This
means that all the links I have included to IBS reports are
permanently
broken. Also it appears that none of the individual IBS
report
pages have been archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine,
so I am unable to re-link to them there as I did with the
older TBRC
reports. Fortunately the Wayback Machine has archived the state
& province report indexes
from the IBS site. This means that there is still a brief summary of
each report available in the relevant state index. Unfortunately you
will have to
manually search through the state listings to find any information
regarding
the IBS reports I have mapped here.

14
May 2008
- **Revised
links for older
TBRC reports.
The TBRC totally redesigned their web site earlier this year
which broke the links for all reports mapped from the original
web
site. So those URLs have now been revised to link to archived web pages
stored by The
Wayback Machine. [6] Organization name changed to North American Wood Ape Conservancy in April 2013.

01
Feb 2009 - Added Google Earth Plugin viewing capablity.

11 Aug 2010 - The
International
Bigfoot Society web site was taken
down in March
of 2009. See note above under 16 Jul 2006.

12 Mar 2010 - Completed
mapping Tirademan's
historical newspaper archive reports.These older
reports illustrate how this
phenomenon can be traced back much earlier than many people realize. ****Unfortunately Tirademan's
valuable newspaper clipping collection is no longer available online
due to the dissolution of the old bigfootforums.com. Nor is an archive
available on The Wayback Machine, due to crawler prohibition by the new
bigfootforums.com at the same url.

16 Mar 2010 - ***Revised links for
reports from
the Western Canadian
Sasquatch
Research Organization and the Winnipeg River Sasquatch
Research Association to point to archived pages of
the Wayback
Machine.The sites of both organizatons
were taken down some time after they were mapped. Unfortunately archives
are currently incomplete for both organizations' sites.
Also fixed (finally!) the WCRSO DeLorme
TopoUSA
draw files to correctly display report names (i.e., dates)
instead of hyperlinks.

20
Mar 2010 - Revamped web page design.

Aug 2010 - Lots of
good discussion regarding this project was lost due to
disintegration of the old Bigfoot Forums. Unfortunately there are not
even
archival copies on the Wayback Machine site. General
discussion thread. GoogleEarth
thread. Feel free to post questions
and comments on the new BFF.

17 Oct 2010 - Added Kentucky
Bigfoot reports (preliminary).

16 Jan 2012 - Updated Kentucky
Bigfoot reports.

16 Jan 2012 - Updated
Pennsylvania
Bigfoot Society reports.

02 Jul 2012 - [5]
The Sasquatch Research Initiative Web Site has been taken down, and
since the site was not archivable by the Wayback Machine project, all
links to the organization's reports are permanently broken.

06 May 2013 - Updated Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Reports, [6] Texas Bigfoot Conservancy has changed name to North American Wood Ape Conservancy. This change is not yet reflected here.

05 Aug 2013 - Updated Kentucky Bigfoot Reports.

14 Dec 2014 - Updated Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society Reports

14 Dec 2014 - Updated Kentucky Bigfoot Reports.

Subsequent
efforts may include: adding
reports from other research organizations; preparing analytical maps by
time frame and report type.